The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission manages a program that provides wheelchair-accessible yellow taxi dispatching services. Wheelchair-accessible yellow taxis will respond to trips originating in Manhattan and ending anywhere in the five boroughs, Westchester and Nassau counties, and the three regional airports. Passengers pay the normal metered taxi fare in New York City from the point of pick-up to destination. There are no extra costs to passengers.

To learn more about your rights as a passenger, visit the Bill of Rights page.

There are five ways to request a New York City wheelchair-accessible taxi:

If you are a driver with questions about the Taxi Improvement Fund (TIF), which provides payments of 50 cents for each trip that enrolled drivers complete in a Wheelchair Accessible Vehicle, visit the TIF Driver page. Note that you must enroll to be eligible for TIF payments.

Wheelchair-Accessible For-Hire-Vehicle Service

Customers living in the Bronx, Brooklyn, northern Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island can call the following Boro Taxi car services (also known as Street Hail Livery bases) for a wheelchair-accessible Boro Taxi.